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p.55. Grand Banks, 200 fathoms, -p.55. Grand Banks,200 fathoms. - 
JORDAN and GILBERT, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No..16,'. 1882, p. 257, 
t! 
(compiled). - GUNTHER, Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol.22, 1887, p.224 
(compiled). - GOODE and BEAN, Oceanic Ichthy., 1895, p.38, pi. 13, 
fig. 47, (type). Hit 
Mitchillin a baird ii JORDAN and EVERMANN, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 47, pt.l, 
1896, 454 (compiled). 
Depth 7 2/S; head 4, width 2 7/8. Snout 4 l/3 in head from snout tip 
* 
to front eye edge; orbit 4 l/4, eye 5 l/5, 1 l/8 in snout, greater than ih- 
terorbital; maxillary reaches l/2 in eye, length 3 in head; interorbital 
7, with elevated median convex ridge to occiput. Gill rakers 10 4 22, 
lanceolate, 1 l/4 in eye; gill filaments 3 l/5 in gill rakers. 
Scales 68 in lateral line to caudal base; 7 above, 11 below, 48 
predorsal* Dorsal, anal and caudal bases finely scaly. Scales thin, flat, 
cycloid, well imbedded, with many as 17 weak radiating basal striae. 
Circuli largely longitudinal, parallel, very fine, numerous. 
D. 22, I (rays damaged), fin height equals orbit; A. 25, _I (rays 
broken), fin height slightly greater than orbit, fin origin about opposite 
first fourth of dorsal base and fin base extends behind dorsal base for 
space equals 3 2/3 in dorsal fin base; caudal small, forked, lobes rounded, 
rudimentary rays about 10. little evident, fin 2 l/4 in head; least depth 
of caudal peduncle 3 2/5; pectoral 3 l/5; ventral (damaged) about equals 
orbit• « 
Uniform brownish in alcohol, due to most of skin rubbed off. Head 
where skin remains blackish. Iris slaty, pupil brown. Inside gill 
